Mario Rinvolucri: The Insistence Exercise

Mario Rinvolucri: The Insistence Exercise Person A: What is it? Person B: It’s a single question put by one student to a classmate. The questioner repeats the same question many […]
Phil Wade Interviews: Scott Thornbury

Phil Wade Interviews: Scott Thornbury Scott Thornbury teaches on the MA TESOL program at The New School in New York. His previous experience includes teaching and teacher training in Egypt, […]
Teaching in Korean Universities

Teaching in Korean Universities As I end my 20th year in Korea, and my 18th as a Professor at a University in Seoul, I have been reflecting on what life […]
Adapting ELT Textbooks for Students

Adapting ELT Textbooks for Students Course books are the mainstay of any course of English language study, providing the essential grounding in areas such as the four skills, vocabulary, grammar […]
Collocations Lesson – How to Teach

Collocations Lesson – How to Teach In my previous article for EFLmagazine.com, Taking a Chunk out of Vocabulary: Using Collocations (2015), I examined what collocation is and the benefits of […]
Ron Morrain – Phil Wade Interviews

Ron Morrain – Phil Wade Interviews Ron Morrain is the Director of Studies at the Language Learning Center Duisburg. He has been active in Human Resource Management and Development for […]
Promoting Learner Autonomy in One-to-One Lessons

Promoting Learner Autonomy in One-to-One Lessons Have you ever had the feeling that there’s not much left for you to do but watch your student’s rapid growth resulting from his […]
TOEFL Is Not an English Test – These Are the Reasons

TOEFL Is Not an English Test – These Are the Reasons In September, 2005, ETS, the New Jersey-based company that designs and administers the TOEFL test, introduced an updated version […]
Composition Writing Skills for the EFL/ESL Classroom

Composition Writing Skills for the EFL/ESL Classroom Nine years ago, I found myself having to rediscover how to teach writing to sophomores and higher level students for the first time […]
ESL Placement Tests – An Analysis

ESL Placement Tests -An Analysis How accurate is the placement test at your school? How do you know? Can the data gathered through the placement test be used in other […]